can solve this because what science does is it makes it so that you don't actually have to treat the disease because you've detected it early or you've prevented it. >> right. i think about vaccination, how we've eradicated it on that basis and the cost of vaccination versus the advance care that's needed to deal with the sequelae, the side effects of that particular condition. so in cancer alone, 50% of cancers are preventable just from prevention strategies of dealing with proper nutrition, not smoking, protection, and a variety of other strategies. >> can private money, can private sector fund these kinds of advances that you're describing? >> there's no question. i mean on several levels. individuals giving gifts and contributions, very important. but also having a synergistic interactions with a commercial entity. for example, if we develop a drug that actually has an impact on a disease, we can license that drug to a pharmaceutical company and we get a return on the investment that we plow back into our mission. >> so in this atmosphere of budget cutting and, you know, concerns